UPDATE: [Poetry] Updated Deadline: Dante's Heart (journal), Dec 5

"Fairy stories make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for onewild moment, that they run with water."-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Thatâ€™s what Danteâ€™s Heart is looking for: stories, poetry, and art thatsurprise and demand that the reader see the world as if for the first time.

The editors of Dante's Heart: A Journal of Myth, Fairytale, Folklore andFantasy invite submissions for their first issue, to launch in December 2007.

Dante's Heart will be a biannual, online venue for established and newwriters and artists to share creative work that explores how myth and fairytale define and are defined by the human experience(s). We want tocelebrate the shock, wonder, bewilderment, suffering, and enchantment ofmyth, of the fantastic; we want to hear about rivers running with wine andghosts jumping the Mississippi on motorcycles. We're concerned with theneglect of myth, with the blindness of a culture determined by myths ithasn't thought about; we demand (beg, entreat, scream) that myths bethought about, made and remade, handled with a delicate &angry/sad/desperate/joyous exuberance.

We do not recognize or bother with boundaries between genres. We arelooking for vital, knife-sharp work. We are looking for the unexpected, thebeautiful, the uncanny and nightmarish, the eldritch, the border oftwilight, the one wild moment. And after reading, when we return to â€œthefields we know,â€ we want to know these fields differently. Especiallywelcome is work on or from mythic traditions outside the West.

Visit us at www.dantesheart.com. Send submissions and correspondence to:editors_at_dantesheart.com